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That youGet your orders From Walgreens, CVS or even Walmart, we count all from time to time on drugs - and some of us have pills that we take daily. This is why the drug shortages are so worrying: we count on the pharmacy to have everything we are prescribed when we need it, but that is not always the case. And now, a very common drug is experiencing a new shortage in certain CVS locations, which means that you may want to call in advance before presenting yourself. Read the rest to find out which prescription you may have trouble filling soon.

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The United States has struggled with a number of drug supply problems recently. During the last month, the Americans were warned of two separate drug shortages. On October 12, the Food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA) confirmed that thePopular ADHD drugs Adderall is currently under shortage after patients across the country have disturbed the guarantee of their prescriptions.

Doctors have just started to alert consumers to ashortage of ozempic, which is a common diabetes medication that has recently gained viral popularity for its side loss of weight. The FDA said that "the intermittent disruption of the offer" of this drug should continue until November 22 at least November 22, because the country faces an "increase in the drug unprecedented for the medication".

And now CVS faces the shortage of a different drug in certain places - and this is the one you have almost certainly been prescribed.

A potentially vital medication becomes more difficult for some people in Find. October 17,Sun Chronicle Attleboro's Journal, Massachusetts, reported that some of its local CVS pharmacies aretake a shortage of the drug Amoxicillin. According to Mayo Clinic, amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic which is most often "usedTreat bacterial infections In many different parts of the body "and is only available with a prescription from a doctor.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

On social networks, people have shared their difficulties in obtaining this popular antibiotic. "Of course all CVsin the zone came out of Amoxicillin, "a Twitter user wrote on October 18. And on the Reddit page of the Pittsburgh community, a user created a thread on Oct 14a bit of adventure Today, trying to fill in a prescription, and when I called CVS, they said they had no amoxicillin and to their knowledge, most CV [stores] in the region do not do it "They wrote.

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A local CVS pharmacy director saidSun ChronicleThat even if she could not speak for the company as a whole, she had struggled to obtain amoxicillin for her location. "There is a shortage," she said. ButMatt Blanchette, the main director of retail communications for CVS, has since confirmed problems with this drug with several media.

"Some stores have seen shortages of products from supplier isolated from certain doses of the drug," he told CBS in East Providence, Rhode Island. According to the media, Blanchette stressed that there was however no generalized shortage of amoxicillin. "We work with the manufacturers to reconstruct the supply as quickly as possible," he added.

The FDA has 126 different drugs listed like "currently in shortage"On its database of drug shortage at the moment. But unlike Adderall and Ozempic, amoxicillin is not on the list. And other pharmacies do not report the problems of prescription prescriptions for this medication. A pharmacy director at Walgreens saidSun Chronicle That its stores do not have the same problem with amoxicillin because they have a different medication supplier. "This did not affect us," she said, noting that CVS had to transfer a number of amoxicillin orders to Walgreens to fill.

Justine Zilliken, Director of Strategy at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, saidSun Chronicle That even if there are patient reports in other states with difficulty depositing amoxicillin prescriptions, this does not seem to be a more important problem at the moment. "Speaking with our pharmacist, chief doctor and medical director of pediatrics, we do not encounter any problem or concern at the moment," she told the newspaper.

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